“There is no such a thing as a free lunch” often claim prominent mainstream economist. Well, the opposite theory – which justify unorthodox policies such as the unconditional basic income, finally gets some reckoning.
A free lunch of common sense
January 12th, 2013 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis | Leave A Comment »
The illusion of money scarcity
August 20th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis, Crisis routine | Leave A Comment »
One of the main issue of today’s economic shift of paradigm is that most of the people think like money is always scarce and has to remain so. This way, while the entire World is changing, we are still stuck into the old-fashion straitjacket of our monetary system, based on scarcity.
Götz Werner on our mistake in thinking
August 6th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis | Leave A Comment »
Do you know Götz Werner? In case you don’t, Werner is a very famous entrepreneur in Germany. He founded the drugstore chain dm-drogerie markt, which he led for 35 years. He is also a influent advocate of the unconditional basic income, and most of all a brillant and heterodox thinker.
A golden rule for discussing about gold standard
June 14th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Crisis routine | 4 Comments »
When talking about money and more specifically on the gold standard, there should be a “golden rule”. Not a time limit, just something simple like: every participant in such a debate must disclose how much gold (or silver) he owns.
A documentary about the monetary system
May 3rd, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis | Leave A Comment »
Here is a very good documentary produced by Positive Money. This is a must see if you want to understand how money works nowadays, why it creates inequalities, and how we can change it. Last january, I had the opportunity to interview Ben Dyson, the founder of Positive Money, an action-tank that promotes a monetary […]
Democratizing Fed’s cheap money
April 24th, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis, Crisis routine | Leave A Comment »
What if everyone had access to cheap money central banks are flooding into the financial markets since the beginning of the crisis? Last week, The Washington Post published a nice post that raises the question.
What can the World expect from France?
April 22nd, 2012 | by Stanislas Jourdan | published in Beyond the crisis, Featured, Froggy News | 2 Comments »
Today is an election day in France. But if you expect some surprising news, you had better to check out this few radical ideas that will emerge soon.
